Visual artist from the UK working in Bergen, Norway 


CONTACT
lauragaiger @ gmail.com / Arna Industrihus, Fabrikkveien 20, Ytre Arna, Bergen

Member: Landsforeningen Norske Malere (Norwegian Painters’ Association) / Norske Billedkunstnere (Norwegian Visual Artists)

Instagram > @l.gaiger


CURRENT/UPCOMING
VISP Artist of the Month, June 2024

DUO EXHIBITION Title tbc, with Charlotte Besuijen, BILLBOARD at Den Uferdige Institusjonen, Bergen 2024

SOLO EXHIBITION Tragedy of the Commons, Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst (Trøndelag Centre for Contemporary Art), October 2025

SOLO EXHIBITION Wat Tyler English Rebel, Lewisham Arthouse, London, 2025

SOLO EXHIBITION Moby Dick Psychopomp, A_Place Gallery, Glasgow, 2025

DUO EXHIBITION Title tbc with Charlotte Besuijen, Galleri Christinegaard, Bergen 2026

NBK Artist in Residence Programme Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, 2024

BOOK edited by Eamon O’Kane > download: Vitalistic Fantasies // Laura Gaiger

EDUCATION
KMD (Universitet i Bergen, Fakultet for kunst, musikk og design) - Master in Fine Art 2020

The Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting and Printmaking 2016

Royal Scottish Academy’s John Kinross Travelling Scholarship to Florence 2016

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Tragedy of the Commons, Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst, October 2025

Wat Tyler English Rebel, Lewisham Arthouse, London, 2025

Moby Dick Psychopomp, A_Place Gallery, Glasgow, 2025

Looking Heaven in the Eye, Muralverkstedet, Oslo, 2024

Anthroscaping, Kunstgarasjen, Bergen, 2023

A Time to, Muralverkstedet, 2023

Dinosaur Park, Nye Bokboden, Bergen, October 2022

Tipping Points, Grieghallen, Bergen, September 2022 (Exhibition and project in collaboration with NORCE/The Bjerknes Centre)

Kulturlandskap, Ål Kulturhus, May 2022

Common Land, USF Visningsrommet, November 2021

Allemannsretten: Exhibition for Nobody, Leveld Kunstnartun, June 2021 (as part of a 2-month residency)

Puncta, OVE galleri, Bergen, March 2021

The past and future are dreaming of each other, Galleri Fisk, Bergen, October 2019

SUPPERTIME, Laura Gaiger & Sarah Wilson, Crownpoint Studios, Glasgow, May 2018

Helping on the Farm, Unit 42, The Hidden Lane, Glasgow, December 2017

Interior Paintings, Motherwell Concert Hall and Theatre, August -  October 2017

Lemon Yellow, Laura Gaiger & Sarah Wilson, The Old Hairdressers', Glasgow, February 2017

Recent Paintings, The Tontine Cafe, Glasgow, February 2016

Painting: The Plinth, The Plinth, Glasgow,  October 2015

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Maleri, CM7, Bergen, 2024

Flokk Marked på CM7, Bergen, December 2023

Flokk på CM7, Bergen, June 2023

BLOKK Jubileumutstillingen, USF Visningsrommet, Bergen, July 2022

Liminal Spaces (Group Exhibition, curated by Eamon O’Kane and Daniela Quacinella), The Valletta Design Cluster, Malta, November 2021

Høstutstillingen 2021, Kunstnernes HusOslo, September 2021

ANDIAMO, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, September 2021

Vignettes & Pathways, Crownpoint Projects, Glasgow, June 2021

Vinter Kunstmarked, Artfolk @ Kiosken, Bergen, December 2020

MA2020, KODE 2, Bergen, 21st August - 14th September 2020

Window Exhibition, Bergen (various locations, windows, gardens & balconies), April 2020

In 24 Hours, The Wall Space Gallery, Falkirk, April 2020

KMD MFA degree show, Bergen Kunsthall, 3rd April - 3rd May 2020 (Cancelled due to Covid-19)

Syndesgate 1b, Sydnesgate 1, 5010 Bergen, 31st May 2019
 
Make Me/Destroy Me, Group Exhibition, USF Visningsrommet, Bergen, 26th April - 5th May 2019

Kunstmarked, CM7, Bergen, 26th April - 5th May 2019

RSA Open 2018, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 23rd June - 25th July 2018

Glasgow Splash, Group Exhibition, Bella Juanita, Palma, Mallorca, 23rd September - 30th December 2017

Transmission Gallery Members’ Show, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 9th September - 14th October 2017

RSA Open 2017, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 22nd July - 1st October  2017

New Scottish Artists, David Roberts Art Foundation, Camden, 19th April - 6th May 2017

RSA New Contemporaries, The Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh, 18th February - 15th March 2017

Pendolino Vol. 1, Group exhibition, The New Glasgow Society, 1307 Argyle St, Glasgow, 20th - 26th January 2017

Collective Memory: The Past and Future is Ours, Bushwick Studios, 28 Scott Avenue, New York, 1st - 2nd October 2016, and Celine, 493 Victoria Road, Glasgow, 15th October 2016. Curated by Anna Bauer and Céline Amendola (Glasgow) and Benjamin Lee Sperry (New York)

RSA Open, The Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh, 16th July 2016 - 30th August 2016

Painting & Decorating: Glasgow School of Art Degree Show, The Tontine Building, 20 Trongate, Glasgow, 18th - 24th June 2016

Painters Gonna Paint, Group exhibition (Curator/participant), The Tontine Building, 22nd March 2016

Construction & Destruction, Group exhibition, The Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine, 30th May – 31st July 2015

Nepal, Studio Warehouse Glasgow, 22nd - 26th May 2015

Safe and Healthy, Group exhibition, The McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, 29th - 30th April 2015

Head (and other mistakes), Group exhibition, Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art, 28th February 2014

200%, Group exhibition, Reid Building at The Glasgow School of Art, 5th February 2014

WRITING
Issue 3, Tonic Journal

Common Land (Exhibition Essay, USF Visningsrommet, 2021)

Puncta (Exhibition essay, OVE Galleri 2021)

MA2020 Catalogue



COLLECTIONS
The Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh

The Royal Drawing School at Dumfries House, Artist in Residence Collection

Private collections in the UK, Spain, Norway, the USA & New Zealand